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1"RTLAD. "ATVRDAY. JILT I. 1H-
Trr or la rni.UTTE?
Th Oregonlan has a letter from a
valued friend. remonstrating with It
for Its "evident hostility" to Senator
La, Follette and intimating delicately
that It la high time for The Orfgnln
to get into the La Follette band
wagon, or somebody's bandwagon.
Th Oregonlan la not hunting band
aicor.t. It never did. It never
wtlL For It la not a bandwagon organ
and it opinion and pollciea are not
governed by the pollciea and opin
ions of bandwagon acrobata or politi
cal porehc Umbers. When the time
comes that The Oregonlan la willing
to think less of Itself, and run the
risk of having its readers think less
of it. rt will consider the bandwagon
proposal. Thus we have explained at
least one thing to our anxious frtend.
But other things he say deserve a
word or two:
Croo la d jwnrlahl prorslv no alata
Is mwa so. I.a K-:.tta is oin to carry tha
a'a'a oyer Taft by an ovra n.Iminc ma
Jor:tT. La Foitt la for rprml tariff r
ytslon. Taft IB only f "r r-rrlyro.-try. I.a F'I
lait com- much nsmrr to rpraantln tha
Ttaas of th pop' who want patrlal prlvt
lt't withdrawn from iba pilal lutercata.
Ta.'t was to : to t rliM.
If La Follette is for general tariff
revision, why Is he not also for reci
procity? It Is a sane, reasonable, def
inite and practicable proposal to bring
bout the reform for which La Fol
lette and the other Insurgents profess
to stand, and in the manner which
they have long and loudly approved
a step at a time. The insurgents
rent the very heavens a year ago with
their bitter complaint over the AI
drlch method of tariff revision, and
they committed themselves repeatedly
to tariff legislation schedule by sched
ule as correct procedure, so that every
Item and every detail might be deter
mined on its merits and the infamous
practice of the Congressional logroll
Involving barter of this Interest for
that favor, this Infant Industry for
that fat beneficiary, might be ended.
Reciprocity has besides been a cardi
nal principle of the Republican faith
from tha time pf Blaine on; and even
McwUnley accepted It, and sought to
bring it Into accord with the hUtorlc
Republican poller of protection.
Now La Follette, repudiates reci
procity In the supposed Interest of
protection, for he Is a protectionist
open, avowed and uncompromising.
But th country Is no longer for high
protection. Has La Follette become a
standpatter? What Is the difference
between La Follette. the protectionist
and standpatter, and arch enemy of
reciprocity, and Aldrich. arch protec
tionist and standpatter and enemy of
any Innovation that seeks to dis
turb privilege and monopoly? The
Old Guard war on reciprocity, be
cause, the Old Guard la alarmed for
the protected Interests and would
come to the rescue of Big Business.
Senator La Follette becomes on of
them a member In good standing of
tha associated defenders of pelf, plun
der and plutocracy because he Is the
enemy of the Taft Administration.
Nothing It does pleases him. nor ever
will. That Is his motive.
Oregon Is undoubtedly a progressiva
state. Possibly Oregon will be for La
Follette as against Taft. The Orego
nUn would not be surprised. But If
It shall be so. It will be because Ore
gon Is not for reciprocity, or at least
cares nothing for reciprocity. Is that
so?
But there Is at least one other con
sideration entitled t some weight.
There will be two contests in Oregon
next year In the primaries for the
Presidential nomination Republican
and Democratic. We lock for a some
what fuller Democratic vote than
usual, and the necessary withdrawal
of many worthy citlxcns from the Re
publican primary w ho have heretofore
been a factor in Its results. The Re
publican primary will he left to Re
publicans, or rather to those Republi
cans who vote the Republican ticket
In Presidential elections. We will not
say. of course, that La Follette will
lose In this manner to the Democrats
a number of voters who are friendly to
him and who -would like to vote for
him In a Republican primary: but we
feel justified In saying that no Taft
votes will leave the Republican pri
mary In order to take part In a Demo
cratic contest.
Le.l our friend console himself. The
Oregonlan will endeavor to be cheer
ful even if La Follette should carry
Oregon, which has not yet happened.
But what else can or win he carry-
either then or In the ensuing election?
TYVO-I.EGF.t MAN.
The wail of the mossback Is peren
nially renewed. When the steamboat
gets away from him he bewails the
telegraph. When that becomes too
well established to admit of cavil he
turns his tearful attention to the bi
cycle, the automobile and finally to
th airship. One or our enntemporsr
les publishes a real curiosity of this
sort. Among Its readers there Is a
man who must have been born about
the time of Melchlsedec and in the
atony of his soul over the fearful go
Inss-on of the modern world he writes
a letter of lamentation over the flying
machine. It will never be of any use
ha save, except to kill people. It will
..vr h of commercial value or "of
anv material benefit to mankind."
Of course such a man reads no
newspaper which could keep him ln
formed of current events. If he did
he -would know that for the last yr
an airship of tha Zeppelin typ$ has
ben making regular trips tptween
two Europeon cities. U. -Sirs' lost no
passengers, suffered nj important ac
cidents and has- mad, money enough
to pay for Itself. That looks a good
deal lik a commercial success.
Count Zeppelin's airships have bad
bad luck certainly, but though they
have carried many passengers, not a
r Kb. kan klllarl in their SUC-
ce.Hsive wrecks. The recent race from
Parts to Madrid began with a lameni
. v,t. BM.M.ni Hut it tajtst one aviator
finished It In safety. When a voyage
1,1,. kl. .nn K. mnrla In the air It IS
almost time for the mossback to for
get the airship and, look ror someinm
rise to weep over." The friend whom
we are commenting upon will prob
. ki.. nn An hi however. II seems
determined that nobody ahall fly if he
can help It.
Why should anybody want to
walls. "Why should man. a two-
legged beast, want to cavort In the
air? Is his Insane desire an indica
tion of the degeneracy of the race,
ii'. ...ninxarf if tha exclamation
of an older poet than our tearful
uaiti it! a mountinr devil in
the heart rulea the unreined ambi
tion." Why should two-ieggea man
want to scoot around In a motor-boat
or In a railroad train where his legs
are of no use at all? Why should ho
want to catch fish with a net when he
can do It with his fingers ir he is quick
enough? All these Inventions are
probably snares of the devil. The
i tia all the tools we really
need when ho made our hands and
feel and It Is grievously presumptuous
n us to thlna or improving uiun :..
in any way.
MORE TALK rOB REFORM.
Tha Pendleton East Oregonlan
Is
for a short ballot, but not too short.
Commenting arnrovlngly on the pur
poses of the Short Ballot organiza
tion, of which Woodrow "Wilson is
president, the Pendleton paper re
marks that It Is "particularly deslra
ki" in atatea like Oregon, where we
have the direct primary and the
i.hi.iim and referendum. "to
shorten the ballot where It Is possible
to do SO. . . . OH", tne anon
lot men should act with discretion In
proposing their reforms."
That Is to say. the short-ballot re
formers should do nothing but talk
about reform. The reason It has "not
been possible to do so" In Oregon nere-
t0forf reform the ballot is that pa
pers like the Pendleton newspaper and
- - m .LI I.
politicians or the same way ui
ir. talkina- and dolna. Put up a great
roar against any suggestion looking
to correction of obvious and acknowl
edged evils.
The ballot in Oregon is too long be
cause of the abuse of the Initiative
and because there are too many offices
and too many candidates ior uiiice.
u k.i win th East Oresonlan and oth
ers like It do but object to any prac
ticable plan to safeguard me iniu".
tha number of elective offices
and discourage tho candidacies of the
anybodies and nobodies who want to
run for office?
THE MIKI.I. GAME.
Several days ago The Oregonlan at
tempted to apply the single-tax
reasoning of Henry George. Jr.. In
working out a concrete example oi-hi-
tha Fa Is Press bureau of
Portland, and demonstrated, to Its own
satisfaction at least, that the results
claimed by the local agency were
fictitious.
Vow- wa have been In the habit or
tonkins unnn Mr. George as a single-
tax authority and used his own terms.
selling value" and "market value.
In discussing the application or eingio
tax. But here comes Mr. v. r. t.a-
wards, of Medford. whom we have
never heretofore heard of as an expo
nent of the Henry George theories.
with a communication In which ne
says:
'p.rmii m to sav that the single
tax has no bearing whatever on the
selling price of land. It simply means
the collection of all ground rent for
the benefit of society. Speculation in
land would cease at once. Tax land
ita full rental value and It will be
come cheap and easy to obtain. Tax
things that are produced from tana
and they will become dear. Can you
see the point V
Lest w may have been mistaken
we havs turned again to the scintillat
ing yet generally reliable Congression
al Record, and find that in tne course
of Mr. George's recently delivered ad
dress the following colloquy too
place:
Mr. Norrla t want to ak tha (ntlcmah
ror inrorrriaiion a n-1 n i ri -
of tha laort you are golns to us you eoo-
ldr tna imprwitmoiii un .
Mr. Ilwm No. ...
. k. i ti. nf this valne on
anv particular land yo r, going to aaacaa.
. . . . . l M.r.Mnn fh walua
or" Improvamanta on aJJacant and adjoining
land? -.1...
Mr. tloraa ion ' - - - ' ....
of ihe land what It would sail for la tha
Opan wiaraat.
jar. orria ii " .. -
Mra.ii '' I -A though It had no I
Bianl what It would eall fo!
onan DiVJ
for In tha
Imnrme.
mier on .nr. "t"ri
application of a single tax should not
be a hundred per cent application. It
.ho..M ail short 1ut enough to leave
enough value in the land untaxed to
make a basis ror sales.
Inasmuch as our Medford authority
would take 100 per cent of the rental
value without reference to the selling
price, while Mr. George would not
use a 100 per cent application and
would consider selling values. It seems
that his quarrel la with Mr. George,
not with The Oregonlan. Yet he crit
icises The Oregonlan. Isn't that Just
like a single taxer?
We think It. Is. Heretofore we have
had "single tax" in tho Canadian city
of Edmonton hurled at us In support
of single tax In Oregon. Tet when
Albert J. Nock, a single tax writer,
was quoted as declaring the Edmonton
system had not stopped land specula
tion, came Mr. Crldge with the asser
tion that Edmonton does not have real
.lnl. tav
Heretofore we have also had the
virtues of single tax in isew ea
iinii and in the Cltv of Vancouver. B-
C dinned In our. eaTs." We are now
lfnrmA hi P!...!. Vitwrarit Russell
In a mirit'n. artlola that tha New
Zealand ministry Is confronted by
most aggravating aemana oy n:
m . - . m n n . Ktn . tha
land leased to them by the govern
mi
ment jnaer tne ecneme oi iana na
onal.antlnn aonroved by some sin-
tk
e tax advocates. In v ancouver tnere
Is
i boom on In land speculation, and
we are lately Informed by single
so
u
xers' that neither New Zealand nor
Vs
ancoutrtn. has the genuine, shake-
before-using, guaranteed-under-the-pure-food-and-drug-act
brand of sin
gle tax.
If any unusual degree of prosperity
or large measure of contentment can
be found In New Zealand. Vancouver
or Edmonton and by facile argument
traced to tha tax system, we are told
Xew Zealand. Vancouver and Edmon
ton have single tax. But If there. Is
anything undesirable In the commu
nities or the tax system proves thst it
is not a panacea for all economlr Ills,
we are Informed New Zealand. Van
- '
couver and Edmonton do not have
single tax. One points out fallacies In
Fels single tax as It Is proposed for
Multnomah County and Mr. Edwards
or some other philosopher arises to
remark. "Oh now you're not discuss
ing single tax."
With the single taxers it Is "heads
we win, tails you lose."
EFFICIENCY OF VACCINATION.
It Is difficult to follow the reason
ing of Lora C. Little, the antl-vacclna-tlonlst.
whose letter is printed else
where In The Oregonlan. We can see
very little difference between standing
off a vaccinator with a gun and
threatening the public vaccinator with
death unless he leaves town. Yet the
author of the communication admits
that "we" have sometimes done the
former and branda the Ballard story
that the Seattle officer has been
threatened by an antl-vacclnatlonist as
unlikely. "We are not given to vlo
loncaa " un this correspondent, "but
ma rio sometimes Dull a gun." What
Is
tha difference?
vi-i- often the antl-vaccinatlonlst
is
a desperate person. He will not only-
pull a gun but will preier miii"
w-ith nAi.ihU death or Drobable dis
figurement for life rather than have
his arm scratched and maae sor ior
w few rfava. Down in Texas, where
they have fighting blood and don't
like to have 'Violence aone ii, i-io
.r' exnosed to virulent
smallpox In January'. Nine re
fused to be vaccinated ana inree
., nnw rna vaccination was
successful, and the one person suc
cessfully vaccinated was in umj
of the twelve who did not contract, inn
disease. Five of the others died. 1 nis
Incident is taken from the reports of
the Government Public neaun anu
Marine Hospital service, published
June 2S, 111. and Is no doubt au
thentic. - mau ..all thla refusal tO Submit
to precautionary measures of tried
and proven worth what he likes Ig
norance, bigotry or defense against
personal assault yet the five who
died were not heroes or martyr w
csuse. On the other hand, tney sacri
ficed their lives to prove the falsity or
their convictions.
The reports of the Government bu
reau from which the foregoing ac
ftAimt 4a taken irA filled with statis
tics of the successful stamping out of
smallpox by means of vaccination. A
newly-published pamphlet oeciarea,
for example, that "since 1907, when
the systematic vaccination was com
vi.i.j nf the air nrovlnces near Ma
nila, which have an approximate pop
ulation or l.uuu.uuu, ana
time immemorial had an average an
nual mortality of at least 6000 per
sons, not one person nas aiea oi smmi
pox who had been successfully vacci
nated."
The following paragraph is taiten
from the same bulletin:
In May. 1!04 the Vnlted Ptstn Army
transport Llwum left Manila with twanty
li cabin paaser.fara. 170 teraa paaaen-
. . a Jt alia tvi f m r OI
ra. six ian unuei m w
crw, or ft total of 21- oul- on board. Pr
r( th flrt WMk mnpoi broko out oftrd
. , . ...... .it hilft In tna
tn vraaai in an niaxuai -
. i . . i n . .f Ka nriAnnel
siaarag. " - : ,
on board ihnwerl that three members naa
never been vaccinated. unin a j" "
two weeka these onvaoclnaterl peraone were
atneken with the dieeaee and not on el the
xaw remaining parsons contracted It.
The cost of resistance to vaccination
la told In another paragraph, as fol
lows: During the. ratamatlc vaccination ef tha
Province of Albay. P. I., with a population
of "34 OoO. bluer opposition was encountered
In the towna of Tabaco and Mallnao. Many
people remained awar from the towns until
after tha departure of tha vaccinators. The
following year forty deaths l.om varlo la
occurred In theee two localities, the only
cases In the entire province. Tha authorl
llea suppressed the dieease by enforced vac
cination of thosa who had previously escapea
and since then there baa been no smaiipu
In tha orovlnce.
These extracts from Government re
ports are not published with the ex
pectation that they will change the
opinions of the rabid opponents of
vaccination. Bigotry, as it Is typified
In the modern antl-vacclnatlonist.
has been with us since the earliest
dawn of civilization. History tells us
how It has sought to retard progress
and denied even the evidence of ocu
lar demonstration. Galileo, for in
stance, was unable to convince the
Aristotelians or the falsity of the doc
trine that heavy bodies fall with ve
locity proportional Jo their weight,
even when he dropped objects from
the leaning tower of Pisa, and he was
hissed from the Florentine Academy
for hla pains.
But It is well perhaps to refer occa
sionally to proofs of the efficiency of
vaccination for the benefit of those
whose minds are still open to convic
tion and who 'may otherwise be led
astray by intolerants.
AN
INTERESTING INCIDENT IN A
OREAT CAREER.
Dear to the memory of tho yearly
dwindling remnant of a generation
that is passing is the name of Bishop
Mstthew Simpson. As for the wider
record to which this name is sub
scribed. It Is written upon the archives
of the church with which he was Iden
tified from early manhood to old age,
and upon some of the most stirring
pages of American history. The rec
ords of the annual and general confer
ences of the Methodist Episcopal
Church would be Incomplete without
it. and It appears and reappears In the
activities of the church, great and
small, for more than two generations.
These reflections are induced by the
recent announcement In the press dls
nntche of the centennial of the birth
of Bishop Simpson, and by the eulo
gies upon his life and labors tnat ap
pear in the church journals of his de
nomination for the current month. In
these It Is recorded that Matthew
Sim neon was born of Scotch-Irish par
entageone othe most virile of race
Combinations, pn.limail, iiicnian; iiu
morally at Cadis. O.. June SO, 1811.
Like many other men who left the im
press of character and energy upon
their time, he was brought up in the
mihi of truth and soberness by his
mother his father having died while
he nju vet an infant. Like many oth
ers, also, whose energies left their
stamp upon their generation through
a long series of years. Matthew Slmp-
was a delicate boy. with weak
inn mil throat that presaged a short
tenure of life; yet he lived to the age
of 78 years and proved his physical
endurance on many a frontier circuit
in pursuit of the duties of his calling,
uu enlsconal visit to Oregon Ter
ritory In 1854 Is recalled by the Pa-
. . . . . ' awt. .1...
ciflc Christian Aavocaie, oi una .-j
as among the legends or Oregon aiein
odlsm that render It of such fascinat
ing interest to a people that have out
.. o frontier conditions. The per
gonal effort and physical endurance
that were necessary to enable the
blshoJ. whose home was in Ohio, to
reach the seat or tne tjregon annual
conference, over which he was dele
....d to nreslde In 1854. constitute a
thrill ng chapter In the(history of early
Methodism In the then far distant
Oregon Country.
As cited by the Advocate, the con
ference of 1854 met at Belknap settle
ment, some 120 miles south of Port
land, and fifteen miles from Corvallls,
up among the foothills of Benton
County. The Journey of Bishop Simp
son was made by every type of prim
itive and tedious conveyance then em
ployed. IU included a sea trip from
New York to Panama; a Journey
across the Isthmus; shipwreck upon
the Pacific, sailing north; transfer to
a vessel which brought him in safety
i Portland: thence to Salem by a
nrtmitii-e river steamboat; thence to
Corvallls bya wagon ride (for which
in passing it may be notea ne paia
ifini- thence on horsebacK witn nm
satchel on hfs saddle horn; thence five
miles to the log schoolhouse m wnicn
the sessions of the conference were
held. It is recorded that this school
house "stood on the top of a butte. In
a frreat measure surrounded by
sloughs, and nearly a mile from any
house."
The determined bishop, nothing
daunted, went at once to the rude
niatform. detailed his experience In
storm, shipwreck, mud and darkness
ith marvelous pathos; quotea mo
stanzas of a well-known hymn or
Henrv Kirk White, beginning:
Once on tha raging sea I rode.
The storm waa loud the night was dark:
Tha ocean yawned and rudely blowed
Tha wind that tossea my lounuerma uaia.
Deep horror then my vitals froie.
Pcath struck. I ceaaed tho tide to stem;
When suddenly a star arose
It was tna star ox uemiBuwii.
with an effect that was overpowering
. W 1 - .wmnathetl. frontier RUdlenCO.
IU IUD olJUii...ii . . .
The presentment without studied In
tent was one characteristic oi me man
who was to the end of his long life a
devout believer in tne guspei mai n
preached a sturdy, forceful exponent
of the doctrine ana meinoas oi m
W'esleys.
Bishop Simpson was, moreover, an
ardent patriot. The changes rung
upon the text "Cursed be Canaan
found no advocate in him. ie was an
..noomnrnmialnir fO of hlimajl ElaVerV
and some of his greatest oratorical tri
umphs were won in aeienums m
war for the Union and in exhorting the
Nation to uphold the hands of Presi
dent Lincoln in his supreme effort to
nut town the rebellion. He was
highly esteemed as rriena ana coun
sellor of the sorely-tried President,
and delivered the funeral oration
i . u. etnse.o the lone tour
ney from Washington the body of Lin
coln was entomDea at opmiBiieiu.
All of this and much more is of his
tory. But the incident of his long and
imirnev at the end of which
was a log schoolhouse in the Oregon
wilderness as an auaienue-mmu,
. n..A honH of nioneern for an audi
ence, is of local interest surpa-sslng
that of Blsnop Simpsons ww im
as an American pulpit orator, inouS
for cnontnneons and sustained elo-
v.a hod no Riinertor and but
few equals in the great century to
- . - . 1 I V. Via
which he beiongea ana oi wuu:u.
thought and energies were a pan
Secretary Knox and Ambassador
Bryce have adopted a device in r
rui cinev the arbitration tseaty by
-Ki-.v. thev hone to avoid the rock on
..vi.u ke former treatv struck. This
is the insistence of the Senate on the
submission to it of every agreement to
..kn.ni. a Hiontite under the treaty.
mi iiuaio .......
The commla-slon of inquiry at The
Hague whlcn is xpeciea 10 smie uw
K..tA. wtHhAiif orhitrntlnn mav accom-
. U ICO w II.I1VUV aavet.e - -
plish this, if the Senate will allow. But
the Senate has shown more jeaiousy oi
its precious prerogatives than desire to
ll. .1 i,wA t
promote tne cause oi aruunuuu mm .
may knock out tnis oevica amu.
Tj. VollertA was less interested" in
victory for direct election than in de
feat of Brlstow's amendment ana
worked so assiduously against it that
he won over five votes. Me is accuseu
en or ofTerino- to trade votes for the
farmers' free list bill with Clarke of
Arkanuaa who reiected his offer ana
voted for the Brlstow amendment. Tet
it is conceded that without tnat
amendment the Senate would have re
Jected the measure. La Follette is
such a persistent Insurgent mat no
even "Insurges" against the measures
he advocates unless he can get them
the way he wants them
President Smith notes the change
when he says the high cost of living
o'lsoonraees nolvgamy. Y line tne man
with average income can support and
dress one wife, a number would put
him In terrible straits. The matter
of dress was a vexing problem to Pres
iitont Vmino tn the dava long ago and
ftooinimed sa-alnst his women aping
Gentile styles, but he rounded out his
days In as much peace as could come
to a man with large Income and many
wives, rlls lonowers, nowevcr iuivcu
it by making their helpmeets more or
less self-supporting
Hlnea did not increase faith in his
credibility when he reiterated his
statement that President Taft desired
Lorimer's election, in face of the Pres
ident's denial after the Springfield in
nipi- Tie went to Washington de
M " - J
term Ined to denv everything connected
with the Lorlmer bribery and Senator
Kenyon's hint at prosecution ror per
tnrv could not aton him. He is run
ning a strong bluff, but Kenyon has
called ft few 'bluffs and may call
Hines
jv'ew York provides serum to save
the lives of victims of Fourth of July
celebrations. A better course would
he to nrevent tha sale of the toy pis
tols and fireworks and thereby render
the serum unnecessary.
The warden of the Penitentiary is
tearfine- a nossa huntlncr the train-
robbers. He may catch them, but the
Governor is the only man to bet on in
a case of this kind.
The foliv of huvinr stock in any old
nrnnnn ition is emDhasized by the fact
that many corporations are dissolving
to avoid payment ot tne license iro
of 110.
An old Judge in Massachusetts has
decided In a suit for separation that
the husband Is absolute in tne iamny
Much he knows about It.
Uncle Sam has $83,000,000 surplus
in his Jeans this morning and la wel
come to keep it. That Is not enough
to ero round.
Eugene never was slow and her lat
est shows she is going to the limit. Her
streets are to have cluster ngnts
Arrest for failure to cut Veeds and
grass is not ft Joke. Tho city must
; be kept btutlfuL
Gleanings of the Day
Here is a romance extending through
centuries. An Englishwoman bicycling
In Scotland accidentally broke the chain
attached to her eyeglasses. As a sub
stitute she bought from an old woman
a string of glass beads which had been
In the old woman's family many years.
She paid 15 shillings for them. On show.
ing them to a London Jeweler she was
offered 500 pounds for them. She held
off and showed them to a friend in a
museum, who said they were the lost
string of wonderful pearls which Mary,
Queen of Scots wore on the scaffold.
8he sold them for 15,000 pounds and
pensioned the old Scotchwoipan out of
the proceeds. That is one of the many
romances associated with pieces of Jew
elry. It was a pearl necklace which con
tributed to the sorrows and death of
Marie Antoinette. Everybody has heard
of the hoodoo of the Hope diamond and
of the Koh-i-noor.
The Lorimer Senators are on the run.
Representative OUie James is running
for the Democratic nomination for
United States Senator from Kentucky
to succeed Senator FayrUarr and made
Pivnter'i vote to whitewash Lorlmer
the.- Issue. Publlo opinion set so strong
against Paynter. chiefly on that Usue.
that he has withdrawn and James -win
be nominated without opposition.
Secretarr of the Treasury MacVeagh
haa never had measles and is being
called upon to be vaccinated with a
serum discovered by Dr. John F. Anoer-
son, of the Hygienic Bureau, whlcn is
said to elve Immunity. The example of
Secretary of War Stimson, who has been
vaccinated against typhoid. Is held up
to MacVeagh.
F:nthuslnsm In Los Angeles over the
beauty of a Kentucky girl moves the
Louisville Courier-Journal to exclaim:
"Thereafter wa shall consider Los An-
..lu a center of enlightenment, a model
c
of sound Judgment and a pattern or
chivalry. The way to win a .hi.l.v..
lan'a heart Is apparent.
Referring to the threat of the Taqui
Tnrilana to make war on Madero because
ha has not returned to them the 600.000
acres of land now held by John Hays
Hammond. Henry W. Tart ana iew
York and California associates, me
Louisville Courier-Journal says: "If the
Yaquis have come at last to a ciasn
with John Hays Hammond and his asso
ciates their Jig is up. All of us on this
aide of the line know that capital is
more terrible than an army with ban
ners, and especially an army of Mexi
cans. Even la this country, where we're
not merely 'pore benighted 'eathen, but
damn eood finhtin" men.' Mr. Hammond
and gentlemen of his clan and class
usually get what they want, and their
wants are limited by their Imaginations
only."
wa are told that there are in the Eng
lish language only two words in which
the five vowels occur in their alphabet
ical order. They are given as abstemi
ous and facetious. mu """"6
Some Slavonic people have names that
use up all the consonants without a
solitary Intervening vowel to break the
Jar.
Because Queen Mary of England ob
jects to the hobble skirt or the harem
skirt, she haa been portrayed as a
prude, a nob and a killjoy. Those who
know her say she has simply set her
face against the gambling and liquor
drinking social set and will encourage
all rational enjoyment. She Is de
scribed as the perfect type of English
domesticity, "awfully good to girls."
Interested in all forms or Industrial de
velopment associated with women, do
mestic economy and charity, deeply im
pressed with Lloyd. George's bill to re
lieve the unemployed. Such a woman
will win a place in tho hearts or her
people and can reel proud or the sneers
of the fast set.
Boston was startled when women
road astride in a pony race at Brook
Ilne and wore knickerbockers. The
only atartling thing Is that Boston
women took so long to learn common
sense. "Western women have been rid
ing astride since the West was .first
settled and have long ago decided that
that la the only way to ride. When
Boston first beard of it, the dear old
lady blushed and covered her face In
shame. Now she adopts Western
ideas.
Tha prevalence of crime In Chicago
has prompted Chief McWeeny to pro
pose that women going home late at
night telephone for a policeman to es
cort them. Just telephone to the near
est police station, ladies, and a gallant
policeman will be sent to the theater,
restaurant or house where you have
been visiting. There would be a great
exercise or pull among the police to
be transferred to the night relief, and
criminals would have even more un
disputed sway while the police were
so agreeably engaged, out It matters
not who else is hot providing the
particular ladies who fiave claimed
protection go unscathed. The number
of ladles needing protection would in
crease so rapidly that an increase in
the force would be necessary, but the
city Is rich and it would be far more
agreeable to have more policemen and
escort the women than to catch the
criminals. Besides, that would be dan
gerous to the policemen; some of them
might get hurt.
The coming Fourth of July promises
to be the eanest the country has had
since Revolutionary days. The explo
sion of fireworks in nearly every city
has been forbidden or restricted to
the smaller, harmless kinds. Its place
will be taken by historical pageants
similar to those with which the French
celebrate the Fall of the Bastile 10
days later or by onservances which em
phasize the educational value of the
anniversary. There will be less ear
splitting noise, less waste of money
and, above all, less killing and maim
ing of those who celebrate. In this
respect, at least, progress is being
made.
Because no court official at St. Louis
could pronounce the name Samuel Pono
vltpoulas. that polysyllabic Individual
escaped forfeiture of his bond. This Is
a dangerous precedent. It would ex
empt from penalty practically every
Servian, Greek, Slavonian and Russian.
Men of other nationalities might take
the hint and change their names to
combinations or about three consonants
to one vowel, and every court bailiff
would be "stumped."
Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe
(Copyright, 1911. by Georxa Matthew Adams)
Men do meaner things than women;
but women say the meanest things.
a mon ... q - crn through Ufa in a
slipshod, haphazard sort of way, and
get along fairly wen, dui a woman
must be as careful as a watchman in
a powder house.
A man Is scared a hundred times for
every time he is hurt.
When a man knows his duty, he puts
off doing it by asking advice.
A woman says of every hired girl
she ever had: "My! But she could make
the butter fly!"
A little boy was about to be whipped
by his mother. "It's all right to whip
me," he said, "but when I say enough.
I want you to stop. That's the rule
among the boys."
The general notion seems to be that
the more trouble you make a man, the
nearer he comes to getting what he
deserves.
How a man's women folks begrude
him the fancy silk lining In his over
coat. In a country town a girl needn't
apologize if she works; indeed, she'd
better apologize if she doesn t.
When a man Is as polite to men as
he is to women, he is entitled to be
known as a gentleman.
"Who Are Blood Belaflon?
PORTLAND. June 29. (To the Edi
tor.) How often we hear the term,
"blood relations," but who are they?
Do we know or do we simply think we
know?
a vomon in the nnrtial heir of her
husband if there are children, but she
la not hlnort relation of the husband.
and she is second heir (if no will) of
her own children. Tne nusoana anu
father comes first. Of course she is
v ? a ..t,iAn f rlillHriin nml all
viuuu lomuuii uti
of those closely related on her 6lde or
line but not blood relation to any of
her husband's near relatives nor heir
in any way from his side or line except
himself, without a will.
The O. E. S. recognizes as eligible
a Mason's mother, sister and daughter
fhloo.4 relational and Wife. In the
D. A. R. one can be a member if the
father or mother Is a descendant of a
Revolutionary soldier or a woman who
-ave a to the cause. It must be a
blood descendant. A man cannot Join
the S. A. R. by reason of his wire Deing
Revolutionary soldier
or a woman who gave aid at the time
of the Revolution, nor is m who cub--hia
to loin on nooount of her husband's
.n.irv Tn the W. R. C. loyalty
counts, ir one is loyal to one s country
one is always loyal to tne aeienuers
that country. Good blood is good and
bad blood la bad no matter who the
possessor Is.
In our late unpleasantness loyalty
and disloyalty seemed to be the terms
used. Blood did not seem to count. We
a sometimes ini'fll to our blood rela
tives and sometimes not, but we should
always be loyal to true friends, our
country and our God.
Violence and Vaccination.
PORTLAND, June 27. (To the Edi
tor i That is a most unlikely story
that comes from Ballard. Washington,
to the effect that some anti-vaccina-
.i i. i... the nublic vac-
UUUI31 Jleo l . . ...... . r
clnator with death unless he leaves
town. It is quite natural that an an-ti-vaccinatlonist
should be charged
with It, however. When a man receives
threats the first thing is to learn whom
he has injured. The vaccinators for
a hundred years have been dealing in
disease and death, and those who ob
ject to have the bodies of themselves
i .wtM..n nnfto the nroDao-ation
ground for disease would naturally be
looked to tor atiacas upon wo .w
cials whose business it is to do the
i 11.1. Tint this Is not the
siuiiiuiv. ' - - -
typical anti-vaccination way. w e flgnt
openly and above board and only re
....inn we have sometimes
stood off the vaccinator with a gun at
the moment or attacK. no i """"
i l t HrlvA vnooinatlon Out of
our laws, and every year sees advances
made toward this consummation. But
we are not given to violences, mat is
precisely why we obejet to vaccination:
because" it ts a violation of the blood
i i. .. Tt,i.fo-mori unon a man
it 11 11 mien l'1"
against his will is a personal assault
of exceptionally oumseuus tim.e..i.c..
t .kr.,.ij neraonaliv rifipnlv regret to
see an anti-vaccinationist stoop to the
level of tne vaccinators.
LORA C. LITTLE
Railroad Mileage.
GASTON. Or- June 28. (To the Edi
tor.) Please state the mileage of rail
roads In the United States and also the
world, and under construction in the
United States also. CLYDE KAY.
The mileage of railroads in the
United States in l'Jiu not. inciuamg
,1 t-oolr a tl1 aMinCS was 236.377.68.
The world's railroad mileage . at the
end of 1808 was 611, 4.S ot wnicn tne
North American continent naa n,it&
miu. utatiatloa In mileasre now under
construction in the United States are
not available. According to tne .Rail
way Age Gazette 4122 miles of main
track were built in 1910.
Tom Thumb's Coach tn Evidence.
. Indianapolis News.
The onnch whioh Oueen Victoria pre
sented to Tom Thumb Is to be sold in
. vu- Tho c-lfr was made in 1854.
A legend of the circus business credits
Queen Victoria witn tne cnnstening oi
the dwart with the name which became
famous. He had previously been canea
Tom Thumn. Victoria, on seeing him.
.oih- "Trnl v this is Tom Thumb." So
his surname was changed from Thump
to Thumb.
A WHIMSEY.
I wish that once Just onee before
1 so
From this dear earth where hopes and
wishes grow.
To that far land of which my hymn
book sings
I might have certain Inoffensive things.
I'd surely leave them here when forth
I fare
To cleave, with snowy wings, the upper
air.
For having once Just once been
- satisfied,
I'd evermore methinks content abide.
Before ' I don my straight-draped,
snowy stole
And evermore be nothing but a "soul"
I'd like a velvet robe of royal blue.
And Just one gem to catch the morn
ing's hue,
A solid coffee set a samovar.
One misty pearl, as radiant as a star.
And sundry little trifles rtlmy fair.
To pin or tie or rasten here and there.
I'd like a home -where spiceful breezes
blow.
Where laden ships come, stately and
slow.
And the soft notes of wildwood song
sters beat
Upon the air with dreamy tones and
6WGt,
Blossoms of every hue should mark the
hours.
(One need not wait to be a "soul ror
riowers.)
Nasturtiums which I lov are trel-
lised there
And roses, pinks and pansles every-
where.
Alice Robinson.-
Advertising Talks
By William C. Freeman.
Public opinion is making itself felt
In the matter of reliable advertising.
There Is no denying the fact that peo
ple expect to read the truth in adver
tisements, and if they do not find it
there they raise a howl about it-
Out in the fetste of Colorado, public
protest penetrated the legislative halls
and aroused the legislators or that
state so that they passed a bill, making
It a misdemeanor to make any mis
statement in the printed words of any
business house any misstatement In
any advertisement of whatever kind or
nature.
The Governor of the state signed the
bill and It la now n law.
This Is a step in the right direction
It will prove of Immense help to those
workers in the advertising field who
are insisting that publications ahall re
ject .unreliable .advertisementswho
are insisting that merchants and manu
facturers who advertise shall truthfully
describe what they have to offer to the
public.
It is really very silly, on the part oi
any advertiser, to try to build up a
business by misrepresenting or exag
gerating in any way that which he
wants to sell to the people.
If a man has no business principle
ir he wants to conduct his business
purely- as a matter of business If he
wants to conduct It successrully, com
mon sense dictates pursuing the opra-and-above-board
policy, because it is
not possible to rool all of the people
all of the time.
Some people may be induced to buy
mlsrepresrnted merchandise at misrep
resented values, but It's only a ques
tion of time when they will discover
that they have been hoodwinked, and
then they will make it their business
to do all they can to persuade their
friends from ever being likewise fooled
by the concern that fooled them.
(To be continued.)
Carlisle Indian School.
PORTLAND, June 28. (To the Edi
tor.) Is the Carlisle Indian School a
co-educational institution? What are
the entrance qualifications? Is it a
National school? Have all Indians the
privilege of entrance? When founded?
Under what conditions?
READER.
The United States Indian Training
and Industrial School was established
by the Government at Carlisle. Pa, in
1879, and was the outgrowth of the in
terest shown by 74 Indian prisoners of
war, taken at Fort Marion, Fla., in
1875, in educational efforts made in
their behalf. The school is co-educational
In the work. Pupils usually at
tend reservation schools first and are
recommended to Carlisle, but this is
not necessary. Articles concerning the
school imply that any American In
dian who is at least six years of age
haa the privilege of entrance.
Life of Trees.
PORTLAND. June 27. (To the Edi
tor.) Which is the longer lived tree,
the oak or fir?
J. C. McGREW.
If Douglas fir is meant, oak is the
longer lived tree. Fir, however, is a
term applied by some authorities to
all pinaceous trees. The California
redwoods or Sequoia reaxh a maximum
age of 6000 years. Oaks reach matur
ity at 120 to 200 years, and have been
known to live 1000 years.
Douglas firs reach a maximum
height at about 150 years. While dia
meter growth may be sustained much
longer, the mature trees are subject to
decay induced by parasitic fungi.
March of Education In Europe.
London Standard.
There are 465,451 schools with 45,
500,000 pupils in Europe, presided over
by 1.119,413 teachers. According to
the average, there is one teacher to
every 45 scholars. Twelve years ago
there was only one teacher for every
60 scholars. The number of teachers
In Russia is about 195.000, while those
in Germany number 168,000.
SPECIAL FEATURES
OF-
TOMORROW'S
OREGONIAN
Although time is spinning away
rapidly on its second century
since the stirring days of '76,
there are nevertheless an unex
pected number of actual sons and.
daughters of men who helped
make possible the celebration that
the Nation will hold next Tues
day. An unusual special article
dealing with these people will be
one of the many timely features
of Sunday's magazine section.
Fiction and light reading is
especially welcome these Summer
weeks, and in addition to the reg
ular installment of Compensation
there will be another Jack Lon
don story, "Semper Idem," one
of the oddest and most graphic
short tales London has yet writ
ten. The Ped Dwarf, an unusual
tale, set in South Africa, is com
plete in the Sunday issue. Colo
nel Crowe and the Funny Men
add an amusing page the best
that has yet proceeded from those
sources.
The "Waltz Song is the week's
offering of popular music. It is
Lulti Glaser's hit in the musical
operetta, "The Girl and the Kai
ser." Famous Cavalry Charges of the
Civil War occupies a full page,
with more of those tense action
pictures actual photographs tak
en during the war.
London's Human Rookeries is
an amazing revelation by an Ore
gonian correspondent in London
who has made a first-hand inves
tigation of the conditions among
the miserably poor of the world's
metropolis.
An authentic first-hand report
of conditions in the Chinese fam
ine districts occupies an illus
trated half page prepared for.
The Oregonian by a well-known
writer who is now in China.
Widow Wise, Sambo, Mr. Twee
Deedle, children's pages, special
departments and all the world's
news.